Lucy (Australopithecus) - Wikipedia
Did human beings all descend from her (or her relatives)?
I haven't taken a science course since 2014, so my memory is a bit fuzzy, so please bear with me.
I find evolution fascinating. I wonder what our race will look like even several centuries from now!
Riley
Scientifically - yes. They had her fossils on display here in Houston over a decade ago. They even aired commercials about it, quite often, while she was on display in various cities here in the states and the DNA connection to all humans. (Can not find those commercials either.) Did she actually look like what they assume she did? They are not absolutely sure - assumptions.
Considering scientifically, migrations of the homo erectus, ancestors of the neanderthal, and the homo sapien, all come from Africa -THE EASTERN SIDE. God created a garden in the EAST of Eden.
Biblically - she could be, I feel since God call the Earth to bring forth the animals first, when he formed man from the dust of the Earth he used the same design that he did for one particular animal, he just changed genetic differences / chromosomes a tad - and breathe the breath of Life into man who became a living soul. That is why "I say" she could be, God could have possibly used a female from the lineage of Lucy, changed her genetic traits and chromosomes. "I feel" Adam and Eve were here hundreds of thousands of human years before their fall. After all the Tree of Life was in the center of the garden and the fruit of the Tree of Life gave the imperfect humans bodies immortality, that is why God put them out of the garden and guarded it, so that they wouldn't eat from the tree of Life again and LIVE FOREVER.
And there was angelic tampering according to Genesis 6. So do we really know what man and woman actually, absolutely looked like when God formed them?
Human / Ape chromosome differences
https://www.scientificamerican.com/...humans-and-other-primates-pervade-the-genome/
What Do Primates Have in Common? Humans & Our Cousins | AMNH
Scripture says man was made in God's image - what does that mean? Physical form? If the answer is yes for physical form, then any of the primates have the same type physical form. I personally "think" in his/their image is the spirit, the thinking process of the brain, knowledge to know right from wrong. After the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge was eaten, God made the statement man has BECOME as one of us.
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